BILL NUMBER: AB 819	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 8, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 11, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 891 of  , and to add and repeal
Section 891.1 of,  the Streets and Highways Code, relating to
bikeways.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 819, as amended, Wieckowski. Bikeways.
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in
cooperation with county and city governments, to establish minimum
safety design criteria for the planning and construction of bikeways,
and authorizes cities, counties, and local agencies to establish
bikeways. Existing law requires all city, county, regional, and other
local agencies responsible for the development or operation of
bikeways or roadways where bicycle travel is permitted to utilize all
minimum safety design criteria and uniform specifications and
symbols for signs, markers, and traffic control devices established
pursuant to specified provisions of existing law.
   This bill would require the department to establish  , by
January 1, 2013,  procedures for cities, counties, and local
agencies to be granted exceptions from the requirement to use those
criteria and specifications for purposes of research,
experimentation, testing, evaluation, or verification.  The bill
would require the department, by April 1, 2014, to report to the
transportation policy committees of both houses of the Legislature
the steps that the department has taken during the 2013 calendar year
to implement those requirements, including, but not limited to,
information regarding requests received and granted by the department
for those exceptions, and   the reasons the department
rejected any requests for those exceptions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 891 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended
to read:
   891.  (a) All city, county, regional, and other local agencies
responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or roadways
where bicycle travel is permitted shall utilize all minimum safety
design criteria and uniform specifications and symbols for signs,
markers, and traffic control devices established pursuant to Sections
890.6 and 890.8, except as provided in subdivision (b).
   (b) The department  , by January 1, 2013,  shall
establish procedures to permit exceptions to the requirements of
subdivision (a) for purposes of research, experimentation, testing,
evaluation, or verification.
   SEC. 2.    Section 891.1 is added to the  
Streets and Highways Code   , to read:  
   891.1.  (a) The department shall, by April 1, 2014, submit a
report to the transportation policy committees of both houses of the
Legislature that describes the steps the department has taken to
implement the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 891 related
to permitting exceptions to the requirements of subdivision (a) of
Section 891. The report shall include, but not be limited to, all of
the following:
   (1) The number of requests the department has received from
cities, counties, and local agencies during the 2013 calendar year.
   (2) The number of exceptions the department granted during that
year.
   (3) If any requests were rejected, the reasons why those requests
were not approved.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends
that date.